Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson

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Bluebeard

 

42 Beelzebub in America

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“‘If the followers of this great religion themselves, especially those who are called the “elders of the church” of the Middle Ages, treated this religion, step by step, as “Bluebeard” treated his wives, that is to say, put them into derision and changed all their beauty and charm—that is already quite a different matter.